Police use Tasers 3 times on man

West Liberty man faces multiple charges from Sunday incident

10:42 PM,
Oct. 1, 2012

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Police said they had to use their Tasers three times on a combative West Liberty man Sunday afternoon.

Iowa City police officers were called at 3:50 p.m. to the 10 block of York Place for a report of a crash. Witnesses told police they saw the driver, 32-year-old Rick E. Butler, get out of the car, grab a 12-back of beer from the car and walk away.

Police caught up with Butler and noticed he was drunk. Butler was uncooperative and combative with the officers, police said. He threatened to fight the officers and began to do so as he was being taken into custody, police said. ...